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The Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 allows you to create interactive, animated content in Flash, and use it in Flex as a Flex component.
Use the Flex Component Kit when you want to use interactive or animated Flash content in Flex. The Flex Component Kit converts your Flash content into Flex components. These components work with Flex features such as view states and transitions, skinning, and tool tips. The content can be used as a child of a Flex container, or as a skin for any Flex component.

Yesterday my wife asked me if I could somehow display her flickr archives on her personal website. And to be quite frank I had been playing with the flickr API but never gave me the time to make something real out of it, so I started googling around and found out this great Actionscript 2.0 wrapper called Flashr by Kelvin Luck that makes it easy to develop Flash applications to display and interact with photos on flickr.com.

So this is a very simple example (based on an tutorial of the version 0.4 of Flashr and I updated it to work with the current version (0.5)) of what can be done with Flashr but I plan to add more functionality and eyecandy to it (I’ll upload the result of that).

Finally the Adobe CS3 is launched and with it the new IDE of our beloved Flash is out; Just by the look of it we can see how much effort the Adobe folks have put in giving us the most complete and competitive tools on the Design and Production industry.
The new Creative Suite comes in all shapes and sizes divided in packages depending on the work environment that you need for doing an especific task wish are the following:

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
Wish is the necesary tools for Video production and post-production.A little side note
on this one It seems that the people at Adobe decided to dish away the
Production Studio and now the tools of that suite are part
of the CS3 too (After Effects, Premiere,… etc.).
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium.
all the tools you need for Printed Design plus some of the web tools.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium.
At least but not at last the web premium wish has all the tools necesary for the Web Designer including of course our beloved Flash.

FLASH CS3 TOP FEATURES:

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator import
Import Adobe? Photoshop? (PSD) and Adobe Illustrator? (AI) files, while preserving layers and structure, and then edit them in Adobe Flash? CS3 Professional. Optimize and customize the files during import with advanced options.

Convert animation to ActionScript
Instantly convert timeline animations into ActionScript 3.0 code that can be easily edited, reused, and leveraged by developers. Copy animations from one object to another.

Amazon has alredy listed the new Flash CS3 (in Pre-Order form ).So if you can wait until the official launch of Adobe? Creative Suite? 3, on March 27, 2007 at least you can check the price and the look of the new Flash IDE.

Apple released an OS X update (10.4.9) which also includes Flash Player 9.0.28. wish is a great adoption push for de Flash player and the users will have the option of the new Full Screen feature available.